Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Adh-Dhaariyat, Ayah 29

Adh-Dhaariyat · Ayah 29 · View Ayah
فَأَقْبَلَتِ ٱمْرَأَتُهُۥ فِى صَرَّةٍۢ فَصَكَّتْ وَجْهَهَا وَقَالَتْ عَجُوزٌ عَقِيمٌۭ
And his wife approached with a cry [of alarm] and struck her face and said, "[I am] a barren old woman!"

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Ibn Abbas Commentary

(Then his wife came forward) his wife Sarah came, (making moan) and wailing, (and smote her face) she gathered the extremities of her fingers and hit her face and forehead, (and cried: A barren old woman!) A barren old woman giving birth, how is this possible?

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Then his wife Sarah came forward clamouring shouting fī sarratin is a circumstantial qualifier that is to say she came shouting and smote slapped her face and said ‘A barren old woman!’ who has never given birth to a child aged ninety-nine with Abraham being one hundred years old; or alternatively he was a hundred and twenty years old and she was ninety years old.

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